#12hrs

[anef-29]

Gods won't see.

[beetlejuce]

TJ MIKELOGAN's HALLOWEEN 2024 EVENT ↳ Day 1: Go-to Halloween movie

HOCUS POCUS (1993) - dir. Kenny Ortega

[tradingjack]

From the firmament above, a blood-red eye looks down upon us.

[alishabeegum]

"IT DOESN'T SUCK MAAAAARCKUS!!! YOOOOOU SUCK" - My friend who has now adopted this as apart of their vocabulary 😎

Another Work sketchbook page from a 'Typical attempt at a gamer podcast'. Had A LOT of fun with the funny colours and little bits :D

[Solid colour background in undercut]

[cherriko-art]

"The Kiss"

[jinji-ia]

天運 | Nothing's Impossible! 🌟 | INPRNT

[star-spangled-man]

this is me when billie hits those notes in chihiro and the greatest if you even care

[solardrake]

INTERNATIONAL LOVER

Friendly Fire for RockShun on Art Fight!

[adachimoe]

The effort this dumbass put into this

Honestly, yeah. What is the player by this point in time, if not a huge dumbass?

Adachi's letter only continues if you've gotten him to rank 9 by this point. This involves getting him to rank 6 by his hard cut off date and then going to see him alone on December 7th and seeing his arcana transform.

Earlier in his Social Link, Adachi talks about his school life. As he says, you can only get back what you put in - if you put in effort to studying, then you get grades. And in his experience, this is exactly what he did. But as he remarks, this only worked at school and it doesn't translate to the real world.

In the 3rd Persona 4 audio drama cd, which was released before Golden even!, Adachi's dialogue talks about effort. His commentary is, more or less, that things are not worth it unless there's some kind of reward: He mocks the protagonist for running at full speed during the relay that has no reward, but thinks it's okay for Dojima and Nanako to try and win the 3-legged-race because they can win a free night at the Amagi's.

In some ways, I think you can relate this to the Social Link system as a whole: We tell our Social Links things they like to hear during mostly one sided conversations where they talk, we occasionally respond, and we get rank ups for our troubles. But obviously, this only works in the game. (Tbh tho, in real life, you can leave people on read for 5 years before resuming their Social Links.) Things require more effort - caring, giving a shit, more than a one sided conversation.

Adachi's Social Link starts off the same - we invite him over for dinner, we tell him responses he likes to hear, and we get rank ups as our rewards. On rank 7 and 8, there are no points to be earned. We simply assume that, based on Adachi's dialogue, he must give a shit about us, and his Social Link advances on its own.

When his Social Link transforms, he asks us what the hell kind of brain damage we have to assume our bond with him was really that tight. "You get back what you put in" - we put the time to go see him here, against our friends' wishes even, and we don't get a rank up here. But the nature of our relationship changes with him and his arcana changes into Lust or Hunger.

By the end of the game, when Adachi calls us a dumbass, it's cause we honestly are 100% a bunch of dumbasses. In order to get this guy to talk to us in any way whatsoever, we have to go through his stupid Social Link requirements where he has limited availability and it swaps between day / night, where you sometimes don't even know what to do because Atlus was too fucking stupid to program in a tell to go do his hangout during the night (or maybe that was intentional idk), and also do this all by a certain deadline while juggling all of the other bullshit going on in the game and the scheduling. And on top of it all, you are then given the option to go against your friends wishes and continue reaching out to him even after finding out he kicked off all of the events of the game that nearly got Nanako killed and endangered the rest of your party members, plus he tried to bait you into killing Namatame.

It goes without saying that the effort that you have put into this relationship is significantly higher than whatever Adachi has put in. And as he says himself, you get back what you put in. Despite what the player has put in, we've gotten a lot of nothing back. He, uh, came over and bummed free dinners and tried to get Nanako in on his low effort game by telling her to cheat on a book report. That's like, gotta be a negative gain lmao.

To have gone out of your way to try and get this guy's Social Link rank ups and talk to him even after the reveal and after you've already gotten so little out of this... Yeah okay honestly what are we if not a bunch of dumbasses by this point. Like I'm 352 posts into this blog and Adachi isn't even going to throw me into a TV god what's the point even.

But at the same time, Adachi appreciates how big of a dumbass we are when it comes to him. He doesn't call us a dumbass because he hates us, he calls us a dumbass because of how much effort we've put into this relationship. A level of effort that he himself scoffed at, but now causes him to reflect back on the time he spent with us and sees it more fondly. He couldn't see what he had until he didn't have it anymore.

Adachi will send you the letter urging you to reach out the truth and finish the case so long as you're doing the true ending. It's a scene from the PS2 game and it doesn't matter if you've done his Social Link or not. In Persona Club P4, Atlus remarks on how the caution tape in his dungeon hints that deep down inside, he *is* still a detective. Him sending the letter is proof of that - he wants you to solve the mystery. But if you complete his Social Link, the letter continues with this new segment, and I think this changes the nature of his letter: Having put the effort in to him with not much to show for it, we, at long last, get something from him.

And of course, as P4AU implies, he has become something of a "dumbass" himself in regards to expending unnecessary effort on things no one asks you to do.

Btw, the way Madono calls you an idiot in the Japanese audio is pretty great. The way he draws out vowels as Adachi in general I think really helps sell the playfulness.

[ace-up-your-sleeve]

boyfriends being any distance away from each other is homophobic and awful, doesn't matter if its 15 minutes or on the other side of the world 😭

[goodworkperky]

"Hey," Sarah says almost nervously as soon Bucky picks up the phone. "I'm sorry to do this but the boys wanted to talk to you before they went to bed."

Bucky is quite literally looking down a sniper scope at an arm's dealer halfway around the world from the Wilson home. "I said you guys can call anytime, Sarah. I meant it," he says quietly. "Put 'em on."

A beat.

"Uncle Buck," the boys chime in unison before they start speaking simultaneously, each trying to shout over the other.

Bucky laughs under his breath. "One at a time."

"Are you fighting bad guys, Uncle Buck?" Cass asks just as AJ asks, "Are you coming back?"

"Yes and yes," Bucky answers. "And I expect your mom to tell me you guys have been best behavior when I get there."

The boys promise and wish him good night before they are off to bed.

"Thank you," Sarah says with a note of humor as the boys run off.

"Any time." A beat. "Hope the boys weren't the only ones that wanted to call."

She hums a laugh that makes his heart flutter. "Sam told me you were working. I didn't want to be a distraction."

"I can multitask. Unless this turns into one of those 'what are you wearing' calls."

"Not unless I change out of an old tee that smells like a deep fryer."

"Sexy," Bucky says without a hint of sarcasm.

Sarah laughs easily. "I can't with you." A beat. "Call me when you're not busy saving people?"

Finger rests on the trigger. "Then we'll be here all day. How about we settle for tomorrow morning?"

"It's a date." Sarah says earnestly, "Stay safe, Buchanan. I'd hate for anything to happen to you."

"I promised I'd come back, didn't I? Have some faith in me, Sarah."

"I always do."

[necrophiliak]

playlist on yt

[conspiracy-crows]

Me: grows up reading fairy tales(kindness is always the answer) and Terry Pratchett(Well is anyone gonna fix this? No? Fine, guess I'll do it then) and Diane Duane(Entropy is the Enemy, you can stall Entropy, be kind, be understanding, treat all things with respect), Gail Carson Levine(you are never alone, you can break the curse, you are more powerful and brave than you could ever dream)

Me: grows up watching Star Trek(Explore, never lose your Wonder, do the best thing you can even in awful circumstances, never give up on what you believe in) Doctor Who(Hope is a helping hand, Hope is the man who lost everything making sure you don't, everything is a miracle, nobody is unimportant) Leverage(we're all different, that's what makes the world work, there are always people you can lean on, even if you're weird you belong somewhere, always fight for the underdog, sometimes the right thing ignores the rules)

Me: grows up listening to my Christian family and church constantly talking about being christ-like(feed the poor, yes even him, do not be afraid of the ones in pain, do not judge others for their work, do not blame a man when his life falls apart, help him, always reach out your hand, we are all connected)

Me:*internalizes all of that, working very hard to follow the examples that have been set for me, struggle for a bit with letting people walk all over me but eventually find balance that lets me care for myself too*

Guy I've been talking to: you're far more kind and sweet than most people I've met

Me: I don't see how I do anything special, I just followed the guidebook???

[ralburry]

ughhh he’s so cool i hate him (read it: Fear of You)

i have yet to watch s7 so i’m trying to finish my bnha wips to get back into the fandom (it’s not working 😓)

[krispiecake]

tell me why i can hear another tenants fucking music from my flat. HE DOESNT EVEN LIVE IN MY BUILDING. HE LIVES IN A COMPLETELY SEPARATE BUILDING ON THE SECOND FLOOR AND I CAN HEAR HIS MUSIC FROM MY FLAT. MY FLAT WHICH IS IN A DIFFERENT SEPARATE BUILDING.